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A West Indian palm; also the fruit of this palm, the seeds of which are used as a remedy for diseases of the chest.

Any fruit or produce that does not come to maturity, or anything which in its progress, before it is matured or perfect; a complete failure; as, his attempt. proved an abortiori.

Rendering fruitless or ineffectual. [Obs.] "Plunged in that abortive gulf." Milton.

In an abortive or untimely manner; immaturely; fruitlessly.

The cashew tree; also, its fruit. See Cashew.

Having the fruit covered with spines.

Not producing fruit; unfruitful.

Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit; sharp and harsh.

Sourness of taste, with bitterness and astringency, like that of unripe fruit.

An acid pulp in certain fruits, as the pear. Grew.

A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists. [Written also akene and achænium.]

Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar: as, acid fruits or liquors. Also fig.: Sour-tempered. He was stern and his face as acid as ever. A. Trollope.

One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.

The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.

Having a terminal fructification; having the fruit at the end of the stalk.

ly prominent in males, and is so called from a notion that it was caused by the forbidden fruit (an apple) sticking in the throat of our first parent. -- Adam's flannel (Bot.), the mullein (Verbascum thapsus). -- Adam's needle (Bot.), the popular name of a genus (Yucca) of liliaceous plants.

have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. D. C. Eaton.

Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled. Dryden.

Quenching thirst, as certain fruits.

; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten; as, to advance the ripening of fruit; to advance one's interests.